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Tracks of the Week 28.01.23

Tracks of the Week
Inspired by her mentor Ran Blake upon her arrival from Mumbai at the end of the seventies, the vocalist Christine Correa with Sam Newsome on soprano saxophone, Andrew Boudreau on piano, Kim Cass on bass, and Michael Sarin on drums takes up the clarion calls and defiant tones of Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, and Oscar Brown Jr. who at...

Tracks of the Week 03.12.22

Tracks of the Week
Overlooked at the time, following a handful of sessions on Blue Note which marked his debut as a leader, between 1952 and 1954 the pianist Thelonious Monk cut a series of records for Prestige, some of the earliest and greatest of which were collected under the title Thelonious Monk Trio. Intense, improvisational, and virtuosic as Monk played accompanied by...